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Author
Series
John Santana novels volume 1
Publisher
Conquill Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
John Santana of the St. Paul Police Department is featured in a police procedural that provides enough plot twists to keep readers engrossed and paints a clear picture of St. Paul's Hispanic community.
Author
Series
John Santana novels volume 3
Publisher
Conquill Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Forced to flee Colombia at the age of sixteen and haunted by guilt for leaving his younger sister Natalia behind, Homicide Detective John Santana is a man on a mission. When a blood spattered Mercedes belonging to the daughter of a prominent psychologist is found abandoned, there are few clues to her whereabouts but a million dollars' worth of reasons why someone might want her dead. Confronted with a list of suspects--a philandering boyfriend with...
Author
Series
John Santana novels volume 2
Publisher
North Star Press of St. Cloud
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The body of a young woman is found on Harriet Island near the Mississippi River. It appears to be a simple case of murder and revenge. But what begins as a routine investigation for St. Paul Police Detectives John Santana soon morphs into something far more sinister. Trusting his instincts and determined to find justice, Santana relentlessly follows clues through a maze of political intrigue and deadly secrets, all the while wondering who he can trust,...
4) Bone shadows
Author
Series
John Santana novels volume 4
Publisher
Conquill Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"The bodies of young men have been turning up in the Mississippi River for years, their deaths attributed to excessive drinking. But when an Iraq was vet suffering from PTSD is found in the river, St. Paul Homicide Detective John Santana Must decide if the young man's death was accidental od the result of something far more sinister. Caught between a reporter trying to rescue his flagging career, an FBI agent with a troubled past, and a beautiful...
Author
Series
John Santana novels volume 5
Publisher
Conquill Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The death of a beautiful escort in a downtown hotel room appears to be a case of autoerotic asphyxiation gone wrong. But when a woman brings her young daughter to the police department with a strange story about a similar death six years before, Homicide Detective John Santana is drawn into a dangerous world of drugs, sex, and deceit, and toward a secret that lies buried in the past; a secret that could not only destroy the lives of some well-connected...
Author
Series
John Santana novels volume 6
Publisher
Conquill Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When St. Paul Homicide Detective John Santana is assigned a cold case involving the murder of an environmental engineer, he begins to see connections to another case he once investigated--the murder of a young Native American woman. But in seeking justice for the victims, it soon becomes clear that someone wants to keep their deaths buried, someone very cunning . . . and very deadly.
Author
Series
John Santana novels volume 7
Publisher
Conquill Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The brutal murders of two young women in the caves along the Mississippi River pull St. Paul Homicide Detective John Santana into a case with all the telltale signs of a serial killer. Except that one of the victims doesn't fit. Santana's search for answers unearths connections between the first victim, an NTSB accident investigator, and the crash of an airliner off the California coast. He soon finds himself embroiled in a complex investigation that...
Author
Publisher
Conquill Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
American troops are fighting the Communists in Korea. McCarthyism is on the rise. The Kefauver Commission is investigating organized crime. In the midst of this turbulent time, the murder of a MPD police officer and the two young Jewish men accused of killing him sets off an explosive investigation that ultimately encompasses mobsters, police corruption, political blackmail, and the ethnic biases that existed in 1950 Minneapolis. Known as the most...
Author
Series
Publisher
Santa Rita Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The death of a DEA agent pulls Santana off the cold case investigation of a young woman's murder and into the dark and lethal world of drug smuggling and sex-trafficking. Soon, he suspects there is a link between the two cases and a group of wealthy and highly influential men belonging to a secretive club. Working with the DEA agent's partner and hunted by a deadly sicario searching for the cartel's missing half-million dollars and the young woman...